Conflicts with some documents when using GitHub hash sign prefixed issues

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mkdocs.yml:

  autolink_references:
    autolinks:
      - reference_prefix: '#'
        target_url: "https://github.com/USER/PROJECT/issues/<num>"

which it's quite intuitive that this turns on a lot of conflicts. So the questions are:

• is there an alternative to avoid problems with anything in the docs? I can't use the form <user>/<project>#<num>
• can be applied a filter for specific folders/files where it is enabled to work? E.g. I need it only to work in docs/news/ directory, where I mention the issues only in the application' release posts:

  autolink_references:
    autolinks:
      - sources:
        - "docs/PROJECT1/news/"
        - "docs/PROJECT1/changes.md"
        target_url: "https://github.com/USER/PROJECT1/issues/<num>"
        reference_prefix: '#'
      - sources:
        - "docs/PROJECT2/news/"
        - "docs/PROJECT2/changes.md"
        target_url: "https://github.com/USER/PROJECT2/issues/<num>"
        reference_prefix: '#'